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Title: Campfires on desert and lava
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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From a photograph by the author. The Finest Giant Cactus QUIJOTOA PASS TO THE MEXICAN OASIS ^ cactus is one, and the other is a certain grand-prize organ-pipe cactus between Agua Dulce and the Playa Salada, orAlkali Plain, on the Sonoyta River. Early in the afternoon we reached the gap between theGunsight Mountains on the north and the Ajo Mountains(please pronounce it Ahho) on the south, at a point fivemiles south of the Gunsight Mines. WalFs Well is situ-ated in the gap, and inasmuch as there is not a drop ofwater between that well and Sonoyta, we were obliged tocamp there in order to make the Sonoyta Oasis with onlyone dry camp between. Walls Well, or Wall, as it once was called, is verymuch to our mind. It was three oclock of a perfectlyglorious Arizona afternoon when we surprised and de-lighted our horses by outspanning for the day, and turningthem loose to graze. I think that even the most jaundicedman must feel symptoms of pleasure in seeing a tiredand heated horse roll on a be

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